Mediocre job review blamed for NASA shooting

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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-04-21T222654Z_01_KUA170826_RTRUKOC_0_US-NASA-SHOOTING.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Mediocre job review blamed for NASA shooting
By Jeff Franks

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A mediocre job review led a space engineer to buy a gun, then kill a co-worker he blamed for the appraisal and himself at NASA's Johnson Space Center, police said on Saturday.

The engineer, Bill Phillips, 60, left rambling notes saying his victim, David Beverly, called him stupid. He exacted his revenge by gunning him down in their NASA offices on Friday.

"You're the one that's going to get me fired," police quoted Phillips as saying before he shot Beverly, 62, in the leg and chest.

As police closed in, they said Phillips shot himself in the head.

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1. NASA is having a very bad year with employees. nt

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2. I wonder if his victim mentioned his irrational tendency toward violence in his review?

What a sad reason to take a persons life.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Everyone acts like it's a gun problem. It's a societal problem caused by greed.

The problem is that Americans are insecure as hell, have no job stability, and knowing you're going to lose your job because your boss has a bad day or doesn't like you personally, can send some people over the edge. Losing your job, losing your health insurance, losing your house, losing everything.

These workplace shootings known as "going postal" didn't start until the Reagan years, when American business discovered it could do anything to employees, including union busting and mass firings.

Michael Moore had it all figured out long ago in his first movie "Roger and Me".